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Kinship Care: Stockport

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what consideration her Department has given to including Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council in the cohort for the pilot on the kinship allowance trial scheme.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body: Department for Education
Tabled: 7 Apr 2025
Target answer date: 22 Apr 2025
Answer: 22 Apr 2025 · 15 calendar days after tabling

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7 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what consideration her Department has given to including Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council in the cohort for the pilot on the kinship allowance trial scheme.
22 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Apr 2025
Answer published
The government announced a £40 million package to trial a new kinship allowance. The pilot will begin in autumn 2025 and the department will evaluate the pilot to build an evidence base on how best to deliver financial support for kinship families. We wil...

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